#friction

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ↗

— George Eliot

#generate #heat #instead #like #likely

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#appearance #celebrates #community #creates #european

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#changes #could #friction #heat #latent

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#also #bar #blows #bodies #case

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#bridge #destroyed #discovered #even #every

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#friction #kills #machinery #people #revolution

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#between #blooded #chris #friction #hot

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#friction #i #into #life #momentum

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#contained #drama #environment #friction #promise

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#avoid #existing #friction #grave #groups